Community Engagement to Promote Resilience

To mitigate risk and maximize resilience, we must assess policy level interventions that address community-level risk and protective factors. One of our first priorities is to promote expansion of education reform to:

Include the development of productive school-community partnerships

Increase equitable access to school-based mental health services

Provide universal mental health screening

Create a nation of mindful educators

Develop innovative ways to support the sustainability of these programs

Increasing awareness and understanding of the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on a child’s ability learn is critical to our success. Through the promotion of social emotional learning and character education programs in schools, we can increase resiliency and improve outcomes.